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30 Ways to Grow Your Website Traffic

Sun, 03/08/2015 - 11:45 -- Hugh Daniel

30 Ways to Grow Your Website TrafficA major key to growing your website traffic is to take many small actions that, when combined, will drive more new traffic to your website and increase repeat visits. This list of basic, essential promotional activities will help your efforts to grow traffic without costing an arm and a leg and you will see results almost immediately.

Writing Content for your Website

Sat, 11/02/2013 - 07:59 -- admin63

How you say something is just as important as what you say.

This can be a challenge, especially for subject matter experts who either want to expound upon their speciality, or just naturally talk about five miles over the heads of most of us.  There are several things at play here:

Judging Email Marketing Campaign Success based on Analytics

Tue, 10/08/2013 - 07:53 -- Hugh Daniel

There are many reasons for implementing an email marketing program that are additional to getting a direct sale.  These include branding, reminders, product education and just plain staying in touch with your customers.  In some ways, the last item is one of the more important, keeping in mind the proverbial seven touches needed for a sale.  It is possible to use analytics to track who is opening emails, clicking on links and to use the information as a guide as to who is a pre-qualified lead for sales follow-up.

Writing Keyword Rich Content for Search Engines

Sun, 04/24/2011 - 15:11 -- admin63

One of the most important factors in getting good placement for your website in keyword searches is to make it easy for the search engine robots to discover your site's purpose.  The content (text) on your webpage is weighted heavily in determining what the robots will report about what your site should be indexed for, especially the first sentence or paragraph on the page.

5 More SEO Tips for Optimizing Your Website

Sat, 12/18/2010 - 04:04 -- admin63

In a recent LinkedIn group discussion, it was said that there are some 200 factors that go into Google's algorithm that calculates where to position your website in searches.  It would be a full-time job to constantly monitor all those factors, but, fortunately, not all of them are equally important.  By focusing on the most critical factors, you can help your site's placement in searches.

Focus Your Website Content

Sat, 12/11/2010 - 03:22 -- admin63

Nearly all businesses have a wide range of services and products in their sales portfolio to enable them to stay diversified and to compete.  With so many different things to let customers know about, the tendency is to try to use your home page to tell everybody, everything about your business.  This results in a cluttered, unfocused page that may lose your visitor instantly because it is impossible for them to quickly glean your site purpose.

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